# Ben Beg, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Grange, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish An Bhinn Bheag.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,236,055 m² (123.61 ha, 305.44 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,585 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Grange, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/grange.md
- Barony: Loughrea
- Electoral division: Grange, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 805 people lived in 256 households in the Grange electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19880
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60560
- Centre: latitude 53.270615, longitude -8.519293 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ben Beg, from 1,097 m² to 250,780 m² (25.08 ha, 61.97 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1936463: 250,780 m² (25.08 ha, 61.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936463.md
- Parcel 1936459: 202,800 m² (20.28 ha, 50.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936459.md
- Parcel 1936464: 198,784 m² (19.88 ha, 49.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936464.md
- Parcel 1936465: 188,435 m² (18.84 ha, 46.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936465.md
- Parcel 1922965: 129,103 m² (12.91 ha, 31.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1922965.md
- Parcel 2016039: 115,537 m² (11.55 ha, 28.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016039.md
- Parcel 2016044: 100,768 m² (10.08 ha, 24.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016044.md
- Parcel 2016038: 81,784 m² (8.18 ha, 20.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016038.md
- Parcel 2016041: 24,450 m² (2.44 ha, 6.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016041.md
- Parcel 1936460: 10,838 m² (1.08 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936460.md
- Parcel 2016037: 10,339 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016037.md
- Parcel 1936461: 10,244 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936461.md
- Parcel 1936462: 7,836 m² (0.78 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936462.md
- Parcel 2016046: 4,585 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016046.md
- Parcel 3798009: 3,969 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3798009.md
- Parcel 4638469: 3,226 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4638469.md
- Parcel 2016045: 3,188 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016045.md
- Parcel 1936467: 2,769 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936467.md
- Parcel 4757375: 2,237 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4757375.md
- Parcel 2689863: 2,178 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2689863.md
- Parcel 2016042: 2,137 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016042.md
- Parcel 1936466: 2,057 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936466.md
- Parcel 2016043: 2,051 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016043.md
- Parcel 3798011: 1,427 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3798011.md
- Parcel 2689870: 1,278 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2689870.md
- Parcel 2016040: 1,260 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016040.md
- Parcel 1936468: 1,097 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936468.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ben Beg in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Ben Beg in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ben Beg.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA097-015: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-015----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- GA097-016: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-016----. In low-lying poorly drained grassland, c. 30m to the SW of a stream. This well-preserved rectangular moated site (39m NW-SE; 36m NE-SW) is defined by two banks and a marshy intervening fosse. The outer bank survives along the NW and NE sides. At N a leat (L 50m; Wth 1m) runs NE to the stream. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 December 2019
- GA098-037: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA098-037----. On a ridge in grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (33m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.9-2.7m). The interior has been quarried out in a number of places and there is a children's burial ground (GA098-037001-) in E sector. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 February 2019
- GA098-037001: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA098-037001-. Within the E sector of a rath (GA098-037----). Marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly subrectangular area (c. 12m NW-SE; c. 9m NE-SW) and named 'Children's Burial Gd. (Disused)'. The interior of the rath has been heavily quarried and the burial ground is defined by a roughly L-shaped area within which numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 February 2019

Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ben Beg.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ben Beg, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ben Beg.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/ben-beg.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ben-beg.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ben-beg.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ben Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballinphuill: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballinphuill-60224.md
- Ben More: https://everytownland.com/galway/ben-more.md
- Brackloonbeg: https://everytownland.com/galway/brackloonbeg.md
- Caraun More: https://everytownland.com/galway/caraun-more.md
- Carra: https://everytownland.com/galway/carra-60901.md
- Cross: https://everytownland.com/galway/cross.md

A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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